No sleep
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Bangkok,
Thailand
Friday, April 18, 2008
Arrived in Bangkok at 4.30am and decided not to bother finding a guesthouse. Instead I shopped for the day and booked a night bus down to Koh Phangan. The VIP tourist bus was modern and clean, but it had been designed for tiny people, or people without legs, because the seats reclined back so far that there was no leg room for the person behind. I was so squashed that I had to sit cuddled in a ball with my knees against my chin for 12 hours. It was also freezing cold. I should have learnt by now to wrap up on night buses with a/c, but Bangkok had been so hot and humid that after a day of dripping in sweat, warm clothes for the bus didn't cross my mind. By the time I arrived in Koh Phangan I'd spent 2 nights on a bus and apart from the occasional dose, I hadn't slept for 58 hours.
